PayPal Joins Micropayment Parade
Robin Good: “PayPal is extending its micro-payments service to support online commerce of low-cost digital content. The digital content to be covered by the new PayPal offering will include news articles, video games, online greeting cards, mobile phone content, and music.”
White Paper on Micropayments
PaidContent points to a white paper explaining how current micropayment models have improved over those of the past.
Fred Wilson mentions on his blog that plenty of people are telling him that radio is dead. He has some interesting data from JD Power on what consumers think about satellite and HD radio in their cars. My own view? Satellite threatens FM much more than AM. Those who still listen to AM often do…
The Hartford Courant takes a look at the current difficulties facing newspapers — and how they are addressing the problem both on and off-line. These are tough times for the printed word. As newspapers grapple with their collective identity crisis, they’re also navigating some stark industry conditions – what some news veterans call the worst…
Jason Kottke makes a strong case that Technorati is heading in the wrong direction. That’s it. I’ve had it. No more Technorati. I’ve used the site for, what, a couple of years now to keep track of what people were saying about posts on kottke.org and searching blogs for keywords or current events. During that…
Mayor/Governor Moonbeam (Jerry Brown) has started a blog. The Christian Science Monitor examines what this means. (Thanks to Jim Horton for pointing out this story.)
Over at one of the companies I’m involved with, CustomScoop, we’ve been playing with a new tool that we’ve only soft-launched and are getting feedback on. I thought I’d share it with readers of InterAdvocacy to see what you think. Basically, it’s a free service that let’s visitors see how two search terms do in…
For most of my life, baseball has been my favorite sport. There’s something soothing about watching a game, especially in person. Baseball has strategy and data — things that I have loved since a young age. It also has cheating. Cheating has been part of the game for generations. Almost exactly a century ago, the…